568 AGARISTID^. 



ending in lateral white points ; sublateral white points on terminal 

 segments and a ventral series. Fore wing black, with three bluish- 

 white points below basal part of costa, one below the cell, and one 

 on inner margin ; some silvery-bine scales above and below cell near 

 base ; a small orange spot below the cell and another above vein 1, 

 followed by a large antemedial spot extending from above to below 

 cell, and another above and below vein 1 ; a broad bar across end of 

 cell, and quadrate spot below base of vein 2 ; a broad obli(]ue band 

 or patch beyond the cell between veins 8 and 3 with curved ends, 

 and a spot above tornus ; an oblique silvery-blue bar in middle of 

 cell, with streak above it and spot in submedian fold, a diseoidal bar 

 and postmedial spots on veins 2 and 1 ; cilia white at apex. Hind 

 wing crimson, rarely scarlet, with black terminal band expanding on 

 apical area and at vein 2 and on costa running back to base ; cilia 

 white at apex. 



5 . Abdomen with the anal tuft orange, the sublateral series of 

 white points complete. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing orange slightly tinged with red ; fore wing 

 with oblique antemedial band from above cell to near inner margin. — 

 Tanganyika. 



Ab. 2. inconrjruens. Hind wing orange : fore wing with the lower 

 antemedial spot not extending below vein 1, or reduced to a small 

 separate spot ; female Avith the band of hind wing narrow. — 

 Abyssinia ; Br. E. Africa, Wawamba. 



Hah. ? W. Afeica, type t inteniiplaga in Coll. Mabille ; Abyssinia, 

 Atbara E.., 1 c? 1 $ , type incongruens ; Br. E. Africa, Wawamba 

 (Scott-Elliot), 1 2 , Victoria Nyanza (Hanninc/ton), 1 cT; German 

 E. Africa, Tanganyika, Fwambo (JShitt), 1 $ ; Br. C. Africa, Zomba 

 {Johnston), 1 5 , Nyasa (C7-aivshay), 1 c? 1 2 , Mandala (De Jersey), 

 1 c? ; Portuguese E. Africa, Mackaj-a (X^irft?/), 1 $: Br. S. Africa, 

 Salisbury {Marshall, 1 $, Gadzima (Marshall), 1 $, Tati 

 (Schu'csser), 1 $ ; Zululand (Angas), 1 cJ type : Natal, Malvern 

 (Marshall), 3 2- ^.*'i»- 60-78' millim. Type f s»a^7iit in Coll. 

 Holland. 



*72. Xanthospilopteryx zenceri. (Plate LIl. fig. 4.) 



Xanthos'pilo'pteryx zenkeri, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. xxi. p. 350, pi. ii. f . 1 (1895). 



S . Head and thorax black ; vertex of head and tegulae with 

 bluish points ; patagia and metathorax with short bluish streaks ; 

 abdomen orange slightly tinged with black, a dorsal black and 

 bluish mark at base and the extremity black. Fore wing olive- 

 orange ; the base blackish ; a black fascia on costa, with four bluish- 

 white spots on basal area, narrowing on medial area ; an oblique 

 elliptical black medial spot in and above cell with blue centre ; the 

 terminal area black from costa just beyond middle, its inner edge 

 incurved below costa, angled inwards on median nervure, then 

 excurved and running inwards to a point on middle of inner margin : 

 a diseoidal blue lunule with a short streak above it ; a large somewhat 

 reniform orange postmedial patch from below costa to below vein 3, 

 where it is produced to a hook ; a small spot above tornus ; cilia 



